xzdiff

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Invokes `diff` on files compressed with `xz`, `lzma`, `gzip`, `bzip2`, `lzop`, or `zstd`. All options specified are passed directly to `diff`.

Examples (5)

Compare two files

xzdiff path/to/file1 path/to/file2

Compare two files, showing the differences side by side

xzdiff --side-by-side path/to/file1 path/to/file2

Compare two files and report only that they differ (no details on what is different)

xzdiff --brief path/to/file1 path/to/file2

Compare two files and report when the files are the same

xzdiff --report-identical-files path/to/file1 path/to/file2

Compare two files using paginated results

xzdiff --paginate path/to/file1 path/to/file2